Artur Blaim is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdańsk. He is the author of «Gazing in Useless Wonder. English Utopian Fiction 1516–1800» (2013) and «Utopian Visions and Revisions. The Uses of Ideal Worlds» (2016). He has co-edited several volumes on utopian/dystopian fiction and cinema like «Spectres of Utopia. Theory, Practice, Conventions» (2012) and «Mediated Utopias» (2015). His main research interests include utopia/dystopia in literature, film and other media, William Shakespeare, cultural semiotics, and desert island narratives.

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• Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe – Robinsonades – Survival narratives – Castaway narratives – Early modern novel – Utopian fiction – Eighteenth-century English literature